TAKURO

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A guitarist of Japanese rock band ‘GLAY’. Born on May 26th, 1971 in Hakodate, Hokkaido.

Formed GLAY in 1988 and made its major debut with the first single ‘RAIN’ in May 1994. Has many million-seller tunes such as ‘HOWEVER’, ‘Yuwaku’, ‘Winter, again’ etc and TAKUROis the main composer and lyricist of GLAY's songs.

Since his debut he has been higily interested in the environmental issues and social activities. In 2001, TAKURO participated in the campaign ‘A Goal of Zero Landmines’ responding the call from Ryuichi Sakamoto. In 2003, together with radio DJ Hisashi Yamada, he launched an event ‘Re-style LIVE’ which aims at introducing environmental problems in an easy-to-understand manner.

Recently as a member of GLAY, he has established ‘loversoul foundation’ and been supporting children in Yubari city, Hokkaido such as donating school club uniforms.

In June 2010, founded self-owned label ‘loversoul music& associates’ and the first single from the label ‘Precious’ was released on September 8th, 2010. On October 13th of the same year, the 10th original album ‘GLAY’ was also released.